so another day. my older sister interviews tomorrow for a part-time position at Wegmans. she isn't too happy about starting at $8 an hour...but then again, when you make about $15 an hour at your current job and clear less than $10,000 a year (with unemployment), it can't be all that bad, right? and then you add the fact that in a year's time she will be eligible for health care benefits (yes, Wegmans offers affordable healthcare to their part-time employees as well....$13 a week if you work at least 20 hours a week) and retirement (100% vested from day 1, all employer contribution). and have received at least $0.50 in pay raises (if not more for merit raises, etc). and most importantly....an opportunity to go somewhere. she currently works for a school photography company where the lead photographer (and owner's fourth wife) dislikes her for no real reason and wants her out. so my sister will leave...and then the lead photographer (she announced that since she is a working mother now, she would appreciate no calls before 8 AM) can deal with all the problems at the schools that my sister used to deal with. nice, huh?
as for my job, I might soon tell them "No more maintenance for me." a while back, things changed where maintenance emptied the garbages in prepared foods....the agreement was maintenance would empty the garbage from a central barrel every 2 hours or so. well, this grew to maintenance having to walk through the entire department whenever they called and pull all the garbages. then one night there was no closer for maintenance.....so the departments left their garbages overnight. interesting enough....the store I work at is the ONLY store in the company that had this arrangement.
after the night where the departments just left their garbage, things changed (to what they should have been) where departments dealt with their own trash. after all, they get hours scheduled to do this. me, on maintenance, would help out if asked (if reasonable....someone standing around who simply does not want to do the job I won't help) but otherwise enjoyed the fact that I could now actually take a break (which I am supposed to get) and do other jobs.
well, they might go back to the previous arrangement. the assistant store manager left in charge for this decision oversees all the departments that would benefit from maintenance emptying their garbages, since its his departments that would now have the hours scheduled to do this but won't have to worry about it. and then the Front End, which maintenance falls under, will lose hours to cover the garbages of departments. he doesn't care, though, because he gets free hours.
if this happens, I'm telling the store I no longer want to do maintenance. if asked why, my answer is going to be along the lines of:
"I do not like being treated as a second class citizen, at the beck and call of other departments. having someone yell at me, telling me 'you haven't gotten my garbage yet, you need to empty it' while that person is outside smoking a cigarette and I'm trying to get things looking good for what he customers see, or having someone call me over and go 'you didn't empty this garbage' while pointing at a trash can and simply walk away is not what I thought this company was about. I am not here to be someone else's slave. it irritates me when, at the end of the night, I am pulling the trashes and someone sees me change a bag, grabs that trash can to toss garbage in, and when I tell them 'I just changed that trash can' having them respond 'I know" like its no big deal, instead of the person grabbing one that needs to be emptied. furthermore, I actually would like to take a break like I'm entitled to, instead of working 1 minute shy of 6 hours running around emptying trash and everything for other departments, while members of the department stand around and talk about football or their evening plans, while pointing at garbage cans throughout their department and telling me 'Don't miss that one,' and such. does that give you an idea of why I no longer want to do this job? or simply the fact that when you run maintenance like this, which is different than any other store in the company, it becomes the only job I do that I dread and stress out about doing, since I know I will have no time to take a break, I will be treated like I'm someone else's servant, and quite honestly, I will probably end up leaving late, unable to do the job of taking care of the sales floor because I'm busy dealing with departments where, if I do not respond to their call IMMEDIATELY, they call again and yell because I did not respond, ignoring the fact that I am responsible for the entire store and was other occupied, such as making sure a spill was cleaned up so customers did not injure themselves or that the bathrooms were clean for when someone used them."
think that will get my point across?
as for my job, I might soon tell them "No more maintenance for me." a while back, things changed where maintenance emptied the garbages in prepared foods....the agreement was maintenance would empty the garbage from a central barrel every 2 hours or so. well, this grew to maintenance having to walk through the entire department whenever they called and pull all the garbages. then one night there was no closer for maintenance.....so the departments left their garbages overnight. interesting enough....the store I work at is the ONLY store in the company that had this arrangement.
after the night where the departments just left their garbage, things changed (to what they should have been) where departments dealt with their own trash. after all, they get hours scheduled to do this. me, on maintenance, would help out if asked (if reasonable....someone standing around who simply does not want to do the job I won't help) but otherwise enjoyed the fact that I could now actually take a break (which I am supposed to get) and do other jobs.
well, they might go back to the previous arrangement. the assistant store manager left in charge for this decision oversees all the departments that would benefit from maintenance emptying their garbages, since its his departments that would now have the hours scheduled to do this but won't have to worry about it. and then the Front End, which maintenance falls under, will lose hours to cover the garbages of departments. he doesn't care, though, because he gets free hours.
if this happens, I'm telling the store I no longer want to do maintenance. if asked why, my answer is going to be along the lines of:
"I do not like being treated as a second class citizen, at the beck and call of other departments. having someone yell at me, telling me 'you haven't gotten my garbage yet, you need to empty it' while that person is outside smoking a cigarette and I'm trying to get things looking good for what he customers see, or having someone call me over and go 'you didn't empty this garbage' while pointing at a trash can and simply walk away is not what I thought this company was about. I am not here to be someone else's slave. it irritates me when, at the end of the night, I am pulling the trashes and someone sees me change a bag, grabs that trash can to toss garbage in, and when I tell them 'I just changed that trash can' having them respond 'I know" like its no big deal, instead of the person grabbing one that needs to be emptied. furthermore, I actually would like to take a break like I'm entitled to, instead of working 1 minute shy of 6 hours running around emptying trash and everything for other departments, while members of the department stand around and talk about football or their evening plans, while pointing at garbage cans throughout their department and telling me 'Don't miss that one,' and such. does that give you an idea of why I no longer want to do this job? or simply the fact that when you run maintenance like this, which is different than any other store in the company, it becomes the only job I do that I dread and stress out about doing, since I know I will have no time to take a break, I will be treated like I'm someone else's servant, and quite honestly, I will probably end up leaving late, unable to do the job of taking care of the sales floor because I'm busy dealing with departments where, if I do not respond to their call IMMEDIATELY, they call again and yell because I did not respond, ignoring the fact that I am responsible for the entire store and was other occupied, such as making sure a spill was cleaned up so customers did not injure themselves or that the bathrooms were clean for when someone used them."
think that will get my point across?
So I'm always EXTRA nice to the garbage people. Seriously.
Good thing is they always appreciate it.